Brisbane mum finds 'meth' inside toy egg in her young son’s backpack

A Brisbane mother has described her shock after finding what appeared to be methamphetamine stashed inside a toy egg in her six-year-old son’s backpack.

Mother-of-two Crystal Hill was cleaning her home last week when she found an orange plastic toy egg from a Kinder Surprise chocolate in her son’s backpack. Inside the egg was two clear pouches containing “chunky salt crystals”.

“I happened to be cleaning out his bag. It was a fluke that I even found it,” Ms Hill told 9news.com.au.

“The scary thing is, we were trying to remember the last time we went to the particular place where he found it and it’s got to be about a month ago. So, that stuff has been in our house all this time and I had no idea,” she said.

After Ms Hill discovered the substance, she and her husband sat their son, Jonah, down to ask him about it.

“Jonah has an amazing memory and recalled finding it in the gutter at a local second hand store (weeks ago),” she said.